Many baby-boomers, if given the chance to go back in time and rethink what type of lawns would surround our houses, might have made the choice our ancestors made.
Author: craigshields
A Note on Atheism
The meme here is just another, and equally clever way of saying, “A person who is good because he’s worrying about being sent to hell for all eternity is just a bad person on a leash.” I didn’t write either …
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Will America Become Florida?
There’s not too much chance of that. These are insane times in terms of hated and ignorance, but still, the vast majority of Americans are decent, kind, and reasonably intelligent human beings. Our nation’s appetite is very, very low for …
FBI Uncovers Disturbing Nazi and KKK Memorabilia Collection in Accused Trump Supporter’s Home
From this: Concord, North Carolina – A shocking and disturbing revelation has emerged in the case of 51-year-old Trump supporter Marian Hudak, who stands accused of engaging in a racist and xenophobic intimidation campaign against his neighbors. According to an …
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What America Has Become
The world stands in astonishment at America’s moral and intellectual nosedive. Until 2016, the U.S. was the world’s most powerful proof-point for the stability of democracy and trust in the concept of self-government. Just a few years later, more than …
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Who Gets Saved From Perdition, and Why?
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable …
The Beef Industry
This is funny, I admit, but I don’t think most people have a problem with hunters who eat what they kill. This is not morally equivalent to factory meat farming, and the clearing of our rainforests to support the beef …
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Our Country’s Best
The dude is NRA-endorsed in the great state of Missouri. Does anything else really matter? Understanding of complex economic problems? Compassion for the needy? Social justice? No, it looks like the only real priority is the proliferation of weapons.
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What’s Truly Radical?
We’ve all seen evidence of the current trend to label everything we don’t like politically as extreme or radical. The pro-lifers talk about Biden’s “extreme position on abortion.” The NRA talks about Biden’s “radical position on gun control.” The meme …
Some People Don’t Want to Talk about Politics
Here’s a comedian with a frighteningly accurate description of life in America. His bit, “some people don’t want to talk about politics,” gets at the heart of lots of folks’ reasoning: we’re not personally affected, so why should we care?
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